A 1-year-old baby spent the better part of an hour trying to distract and break his father, a recent law school graduate, away from his Sega Genesis video game.

"He kept walking around in front of the TV, making noise and trying to get my attention, and I kept telling him to get out the way," Lindsey Scott Sr. remembers. "His mother was in the kitchen cooking. And he had not spoken a word yet, nothing about father or mother or anything understandable.

"And he steps over to the right of the TV and gets down and says, 'Down, set, hut,' so his first intelligent words were actually a quarterback cadence. I dropped the controlled and picked him up with tears in my eyes."

Lindsey Scott Jr. has been ahead of the curve in both his love and understanding of football since literally his first words.

His progress is more than simply another year of experience; it's huge strides in his accuracy, touch, speed and agility earned through specific offseason focus and training on those areas, with techniques rooted at the professional level.

"I feel like I've gotten better just all-around," he says. "I'm running better, I'm throwing better and I've gotten better at a couple things with making reads. I'm just an overall better player.

"I wanted to do the little things I needed to to make up for the semifinals (loss), so this year, I can take more of the weight on my shoulders."

JEFF GARCIA TO JERRY RICE

Lindsey Sr. and Lindsey Jr. flew to California the day after Christmas to meet 10-year NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia.

"I played with Jeff in Canada," says Lindsey Sr., who enjoyed a Hall-of-Fame college career at Southern before joining the Calgary Stampeders. "We were rookies together in '94. There were 40-something rookies, and me and Jeff were among the four that made the team ... We hadn't talked in a while, but he was coaching in (Montreal), and I got in touch with him online, we sent some emails and all that and talked through November.

"He isn't the tallest quarterback, so I was interested in getting together with him not just because he was a guy I know, but because he's a guy that overcame his height, and he's not known for having a rocket arm, but he's a smart guy with QB savvy and grit, and he's a hard worker."

The younger Scott -- whose 5-foot-11 height is his biggest, if not only, consistent knock -- trained, full-speed, with Garcia and recent Minnesota Vikings signee Taylor Heinicke, who had just won the Walter Payton Award as the most outstanding offensive player in the NCAA FCS Subdivision a week earlier.

That experience, auspicious as it seemed then, was just the beginning of an offseason full of interesting training approaches.

Lindsey Sr. drew further inspiration from the professional ranks -- from the annual NFL Quarterback Challenge events held from 1990 to 2007 and from a technique he saw used by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the 2014-15 NFL MVP.

"We wanted to work on his touch passes, and I did a Google search and saw a picture of Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay's head coach and equipment manager with this kind of hoop contraption," he explains. "It's designed to drop the ball in nose-first ... We actually made two of 'em. Those things are like 200 pounds. We leave one at Zachary and one travels with us. I'll break it down."

The device is a small net atop a pole, attached to a cart-like base that the younger Scott wheels into the corner of the end zone and work on dropped pass into from the 40-yard line.

"His dad just called me and said, 'Look, I'm sending you a picture -- I just wanna know if we can keep it there,'" Zachary coach David Brewerton said. "I said, 'Sure, whatever,' and then I get this picture and go, 'What the hell is this?' And he said, 'Man, we got it made, and we're gonna drop balls in the bucket,' because he overthrows the deep ball.

"And I just said, 'Well, yeah, that's good. Drop balls in the bucket.'"

Lindsey Sr. also began fixing targets to the sides of a golf cart and driving them back and forth across the field while his son aimed passes at them.

"In the summer, sometimes receivers can be hard to find -- and they get tired," Lindsey Sr. says. "That was to work on accuracy. We'd worked more on his arm strength in the past, but that had become less of an issue.

"When we were starting out, we got out there, and I could hear he was actually ripping through the plywood. It had taken me hours to put this thing, and he was tearing it apart. That was version 1. Next, we got a thicker grade of plywood."

And the Scotts continued to tweak to the point of actually adding large graphics of former NFL stars, Warrick Dunn on one side and Jerry Rice on the other, awaiting Lindsey Jr.'s passes.

Was tryna get some video of big Kellton Hollins, but Lindsey Scott decided to get ball upfield to Shyron White pic.twitter.com/Du05Qw3Gsa

The younger Scott also worked on his running ability with a variety of drills, which appear to have made him both faster and quicker.

"This summer, we spent a lot of time trying to get faster, trying to break away from some guys," Lindsey Jr. said. "Comparing myself from last year to this year, I think I'm way faster, and I think my footwork is quicker, so I think that's something that's really improved this year."

He finished 14-for-21 with 199 yards and three touchdowns and rushed 15 times for 143 yards and another score with a full display of all the progress he's made.

"As you can see, he's a great athlete, and he can make plays with his legs and his arm," Catholic coach Dale Weiner said. "He made some great throws, and he was able to scramble really well. We knew that. I mean he's a dual threat kid, and he has been for three years here.

"That was no surprise. We knew that he was."

But the Zachary star has actually gotten better than what Weiner might have seen from him as a sophomore or junior.

Lindsey Jr. has completed 25 of 34 pass attempts (73.5 percent) in all, through two games this season, for 487 yards and seven touchdowns.

"Basically, my touch passes, I'd always muscle the ball in, and basically overthrow big plays," he said. "So every Thursday I come out, and I put it in the corner of the end zone and stand back at the 40 and drop back and work on my touch."

The younger Scott has also rushed for 272 yards and four scores thus far.

"He has gotten a step faster," Brewerton said. "Now, I'm talking about long range he's gotten a step faster, but he's looked a little quicker, I think, too, just making people miss in the hole. He's always been pretty good at that, but he's feeling it pretty good right now, I think."

"I think it was (Minnesota Vikings quarterback) Teddy Bridgewater, who said the way to success is like a bird, eating bread crumbs and they never fill up on them," Lindsey Jr. said. "To accomplish the big picture and see the work paying off is great, but you have to focus on the little things to get there, and you still have to stay hungry.

"The NFL Hall of Fame, I guess, is kind of the ultimate goal. That's the goal in my heart. But to achieve that, I have to spend more time working on the little things to accomplish the big picture and always stay hungry."

Other offers include Arkansas State, Army, Navy, Air Force, ULM, Alcorn State, Colgate and Texas Southern, with Duke, Georgia Tech, LSU and Oregon State among the other programs notably interested.

"Christmas could come early for the right program that extends this dynamic football player the offer he deserves," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune recruiting analyst James Smith said. "There is not a better quarterback prospect in the state, and it does not matter how you cut, than this young man. As it stands now, his offer list includes many of the Ivy League programs, schools like Arkansas State and Alcorn State, respectively, but I am anticipating the right fit to emerge at some point down the road. He is just too good to get overlooked."

With Shea Patterson transfer to #IMGAcademy, pretty good case to be made for #Zachary's Lindsey Scott as top 2016 QB in Louisiana.

While the past three months have treated the Scotts well on the recruiting trail, they are at least equally as excited about the three that lie ahead, during which Lindsey Jr. hopes to lead the Broncos to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

"This is the best time of year for us," Lindsey Sr. said. "We don't have to worry about camps. When you go, they look at the way you throw, but a lot of it is what they can see, the measurables of how tall you are and things like that.

"He really enjoys being able to get his brain away from recruiting and come back to where he has the advantage, which is playing football."